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Working Titles
After the disappointment of having to admit defeat with one of my projects, I can announce success in two separate ventures. First, I am writing the first chapter of a science fiction novel. Secondly, I started planning an open source game title. I am excited about these two new experiments. I post more details about…
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Forward Looking, Backwards Loss
Eric S. Raymond, once said that open source is about a “developer scratching an itch.” Thats what I tried to do with justcheckers. Unfortunately that itch disappeared a long time ago, and now the project just exists. I have different goals now, and different needs. So while I hate to admit it, I am tried…
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Eclipse
No, I am not talking about the popular Java-based IDE here. I am talking about the total lunar eclipse that started this evening at 8:40PM. Very nice sight. But cold as hell. Can’t these things happen like in August more often? Anyways, as I am writing this, the moon is slowly reappearing. Or more accurately…
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Spreading Linux as a Scientific Endeavour
I just read Vlad Dolezal’s blog entry about why Linux doesn’t spread. The debate about the reasons why people don’t adopt Linux and a free open source desktop, has gone on for years. Vlad just dredged up the old its free therefore not useful argument. An easy counterexample are what mobile providers: get a free…
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10 Years of Open Source
Yay! The open source initiative is now 10 years old! And look at how much we have achieved in just a decade. We can only imagine what the next decade will bring. Now lets all have cake.
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Menacing Migraines Ahead
Scientist should start classifying migraines in scale based on the pain inflicted upon an individual. Perhaps they should count number of perceived neuron deaths. At least I think they should. I rate mine a 4 out of 5. But my headaches can not be as severe as the ones in Redmond. Since everyone (and their…
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Calendars and TODOs Are Only Useful If You Use Them
You know those commercials for productivity suites/PDAs/etc. where the protagonist wants to go to an event… and then finds out it happened last week. Well that happened to me today. Just going through my “TODO” list, and wanting to check out when that expected event was gonna happen. And it already did. The moral of…